Doesn’t this trailer make you wish the arcades were still around? I remember spending my Saturday afternoons at the arcade playing all the Street Fighter games starting from 1 and gradually moving all the way up to Capcom vs. SNK 2. That was the final Capcom fighter released in the arcades around here before they shut down.

There used to be huge crowds around the Street Fighter games. People would wait their turn in the queue by using a quarter as a place holder on the arcade machine. Now things have changed. The home console has caught up with the arcade machines, and now everything is being released straight to console.

The end of the arcades pretty much signaled the end of fighting games. Now the genre is seeing a resurrection thanks to online play and I’m glad it’s making a comeback.